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dev.to23d agoOriginally published 23 April 2012, updated 10 September 2019 (add link to troubleshooting tool), updated 18 October 2019 (moved to Jekyll), updated 3 April 2023 with links to other tools
Test-case reducers are less well known than they should be, and those who are aware of them don’t always realise the variety of ways we can use – perhaps even abuse! – them. In this post, I’m going to explore some of the things I’ve learnt while using the


Why is my first C++ (m)allocation always 72 KB?? It’s the ’emergency pool’ for exceptions, here’s how I uncovered it using GDB and digging through the source code of libstdc++, glibc and Valgrind!

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